The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things TheatricalPercy Ives Publishing Company, 1906 - 312 páginas |
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... hearing and on the quiet road which led towards home . Aunt Julia and Uncle Neil , who always designated me as " that queer child , " now evidently felt I was in one of my silent moods and had the good grace to CHAPTER PAGE Prologue.
... hearing and on the quiet road which led towards home . Aunt Julia and Uncle Neil , who always designated me as " that queer child , " now evidently felt I was in one of my silent moods and had the good grace to CHAPTER PAGE Prologue.
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... felt ready to faint with joy . " Oh , if I only could ! " I murmured . " But it is too wonderful . Such a thing never could be for me . " " Nonsense , " said my stranger , " every one has a right to the very best life can give . Try it ...
... felt ready to faint with joy . " Oh , if I only could ! " I murmured . " But it is too wonderful . Such a thing never could be for me . " " Nonsense , " said my stranger , " every one has a right to the very best life can give . Try it ...
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... felt as if you wanted to take her on your lap and play with her as you would with a child , only that there was something in her face that did not seem to fit such an arrangement and was not at all childish . On our fourth day she had a ...
... felt as if you wanted to take her on your lap and play with her as you would with a child , only that there was something in her face that did not seem to fit such an arrangement and was not at all childish . On our fourth day she had a ...
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... felt that it was wrong , yet decidedly interesting and exciting , this prying into other people's affairs . When Miss Gaily returned to our group , we lost Mrs. Biber to the stage , but I was glad the gossipy soubrette went on just the ...
... felt that it was wrong , yet decidedly interesting and exciting , this prying into other people's affairs . When Miss Gaily returned to our group , we lost Mrs. Biber to the stage , but I was glad the gossipy soubrette went on just the ...
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... felt it . " Something in his voice , his manner , was soothing , comforting , and compelling . I felt quite like a guilty culprit , in his sight , to have even allowed my un- sophisticated thoughts to show themselves in my blushing face ...
... felt it . " Something in his voice , his manner , was soothing , comforting , and compelling . I felt quite like a guilty culprit , in his sight , to have even allowed my un- sophisticated thoughts to show themselves in my blushing face ...
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The Seamy Side: A Story of the True Condition of Things Theatrical (Classic ... H. A. Dennison Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 100 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Página 245 - It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Página 100 - And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Página 32 - ... father ; and for Henderson, — well, pleasantly, as her friend. The fine, lasting romance of their relationship was heightened almost unendurably for Shore by this threefold apprehension of it. He got up yearningly, went over to her, touched her shoulders once with his hands lightly, then put the hands in his pockets and began to pace up and down in front of her, after a habit of his. His lips shook a little, and his brow tightened and relaxed, tightened, relaxed. Once, a keen pain twitched...
Página 57 - I had a letter from her the other day, in which she wrote, " I have three silver forks which you quite ruined.
Página 74 - He had become so much a part of my daily life that I dared not give him up. "And I am ill," I whimpered, "and need someone to love me.